During remarks on the Senate floor Monday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) spoke about Senate Democrats using the filibuster to try and block a Republican-led continuing resolution.
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00:00Mr. President, we recently completed a 10-week session, the Senate's longest in-session stretch
00:08in 15 years.
00:09It was a very busy 10 weeks, filled with substantial results.
00:13We confirmed nearly the President's entire Cabinet, the fastest pace since the administration
00:18of George W. Bush.
00:21We laid the groundwork for a transformational investment in border security and national
00:25defense.
00:26We continued to develop legislation to extend the tax relief we put in place for American
00:31families in President Trump's first term.
00:35We passed legislation to ensure that illegal aliens arrested for various crimes are detained
00:40instead of being returned to America's streets.
00:44We considered other bills that Democrats blocked, bills to achieve such common-sense goals as
00:49protecting Americans and our allies from illegitimate targeting by the International Criminal Court
00:55and ensuring that athletic opportunities for women and girls are not taken away from
00:59them by biological males.
01:02In our final week of session, we passed the HALT Fentanyl Act, legislation to give law
01:08enforcement a critical tool to go after the people trafficking fentanyl in our country.
01:13We also passed legislation to fund the government, by a narrow margin.
01:18Ten Democrats voted to allow us to proceed to the bill and fund the government.
01:24The rest preferred to filibuster the bill and shut down the government.
01:29It was a double dose of Democrat hypocrisy.
01:34Democrats who had campaigned to abolish the filibuster enthusiastically embraced it now
01:39that it served their purposes.
01:42And Democrats who had decried the evils of government shutdowns now embraced shutting
01:47down the government.
01:49One Senator, for example, who just last March called shutdowns, and I quote, as devastating
01:56as they are stupid, end quote, voted for a shutdown ten days ago.
02:03Another Democrat, who last February noted that, and I quote again, even a partial shutdown
02:09could disrupt supply chains, hurt small businesses, risk travel delays and increase food prices
02:14for millions of Americans, end quote.
02:18A Democrat also voted to shut down the government.
02:22Democrats are changing their position so abruptly it could give you whiplash.
02:28The only thing that doesn't look likely to change is Democrats' willingness to change
02:32their principles when it suits their political purposes.
02:38Mr. President, a new period of session begins today, and I hope that Democrats will manage
02:43to move past the fact that they weren't able to shut down the government.
02:48But whether they accept their defeat or decide to throw a tantrum about it, we're going to
02:52continue to do the job that we were elected and sent here to do.
02:56In the next three weeks, we'll continue to build out the President's administration by
03:01voting on more of his nominees.
03:04With the Cabinet almost entirely confirmed, we'll be turning to undersecretaries and deputy
03:09secretaries as well as ambassadors.
03:14And like the White House, this work period will be focused on rolling back burdensome
03:19government regulations, in our case, through the Congressional Review Act resolutions.
03:25This week, we'll send the President Senator Cruz's resolution to roll back the Biden administration's
03:31digital asset broker rule, which puts at risk the privacy and security of tens of millions
03:36of Americans who trade digital assets.
03:39We'll also look to take up Senator Tim Scott's overdraft fee resolution, overturning a Consumer
03:44Financial Protection Bureau rule that threatens access to credit for individuals and small
03:50businesses.
03:52And we will take up a number of other CR resolutions this work period.
03:57Finally, Mr. President, as I said, we have been hard at work on legislation to extend
04:03the tax relief we passed during President Trump's first term and to make a transformational
04:08investment in our border and national security.
04:12And those efforts will accelerate over the next three weeks.
04:17Confirming nominations, lifting burdensome regulations, laying the groundwork for tax
04:23and border security legislation.
04:24Mr. President, I look forward to another busy work period ahead.
04:29And, Mr. President, I yield the floor, and I suggest we have some quorum.
04:37She's also Brooks.